Mission impossible?

[Adsibob]

I was hanging some cupboard doors today. Using a drill with a flat head screw driver head, I drove some flat head screws onto the MDF wardrobe carcass to hang the doors. Two of the screws broke just before reaching the end. The heads just cracked off.

 

I now have the majority of the screw, without its head, embedded in the only place I can fix these hafele hinges. 
 

I assume there is no way of getting these pieces of screw out - not enough to get sufficient purchase with my pliers, and even if I could grab them I’m sure they wouldn’t pull out. 
 

Picture attached, though so little of the screw is showing you can’t really see it.

FFS!

[ProDave]

Get a set of screw extractors, drill an appropriate small hole in the screw for the screw extractor to engage into.

 

Drill a pilot hole in the MDF for the rest of them so the screw goes in without too much effort.

 

Throw away the rubbish screws supplied with the hinges and buy better ones.

[saveasteading]

I no longer use the screws supplied for wall fixings. Some Chinese factory has often saved 1p by supplying inferior fixings.

It's worth buying the known brands I think.

The same probably applies to screw extractors. I had some from Aldi and they worked once ( one screw) and wore out.

If these are furniture kit hinges then the carcase may not take the fixing. I saw some handy repair brackets especially for this purpose, but where?

[joe90]

+1 to not using supplied screws, they are usually crap. If you must then as @ProDave says drill a  pilot hole and either use a hand screwdriver or use the clutch on your driver.

[Sandybay]

Cut away a little more material until you could get a long nosed mole grip onto the broken screw. 

[twice round the block]

Punch the screw through by running a 1.5mm drill bit down the side of it.

 

Take the hole out to 5mm and glue a dowel in the hole. When it has cured, drill a pilot hole for the hinge.

Put a white plastic screw cap finisher on the outside finish of the mdf to hide the repair / bodge

[Alan Ambrose]

I've used a dremel with a cutting disk to cut new slotted heads before to get purchase on various screw-like thiings. Takes just a few mins, wear glasses.